by Jon Lackman | 13 March 2006 | Americas, Museums
From the Washington Post: “a museum official and art historian who was a leading authority on 19th-century American painting, died Feb. 22 … Mr. Hoopes had a particular interest in watercolor painting and coined the term ‘the American medium’ to describe the attraction of U.S. artists to watercolors, particularly in the 19th century. He wrote books on the watercolors of such leading American painters as Winslow Homer, John Singer Sargent and Thomas Eakins. When he was at the Corcoran, Mr. Hoopes organized a major exhibition, ‘The Private World of John Singer Sargent,’ which traveled to three other museums … At the peak of his career, he was a dashingly handsome man with a gift for conversation and a manner that reminded some of a character from a Henry James novel.”
